The first Sustainable Lifestyle Awards for high school students has recently started. This means that selected pilot high school student groups from Finland and Germany try out a new concept and tools to learn about and get active on sustainable lifestyle. The pilot project is organised by One Did It and the UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaboration Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production, CSCP.
Die ersten Preisausschreiben zu nachhaltigen Lebensstilen für SchülerInnen weiterführender Schulen haben begonnen. Das bedeutet, dass ausgewählte Schülergruppen aus Finnland und Deutschland ein neues Konzept und Hilfsmittel zum Lernen und Aktiv werden für nachhaltige Lebensstile ausprobieren. Das Pilotprojekt wird von One Did It und dem UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaboration Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production, CSCP organisiert.
We are very excited to hear feedback and experiences from the participants. Our aim is to further develop this concept and make it accessible for larger audience around Europe.
Wir sind gespannt auf Feedback und Erfahrungen der Teilnehmer. Unser Ziel ist es, dieses Konzept weiterzuentwickeln und einem größeren Publikum europaweit zugänglich zu machen.
In the pilot phase the concept is based on following features:
In der Pilotphase basiert das Konzept auf folgenden Grundzügen:
1. An introduction to the sustainable lifestyle issue. We prepared some material for this purpose. You can find the material in English, German and Finnish. You are free to use it but please let us know what you and your students think about it by sending your comments to Marja Salo (firstname.surname@onedidit.com).
1. Eine Einführung in das Thema Nachhaltiger Lebensstil. Wir haben dafür Material vorbereitet. Sie haben Zugriff zu dem Material auf Englisch, Deutsch und Finnisch. Sie können es gerne verwenden, aber bitte geben Sie uns Rückmeldung, was Sie und Ihre SchülerInnen davon halten, indem Sie Ihre Bemerkungen an Marja Salo senden (Vorname.Nachname@onedidit.com).
2. The features of the One Did It website, especially the eco-backpack test, eco-actions and the recently released groups feature.
2. Die Angebote auf der One Did It-Website, insbesondere der Ökologischer-Rucksack-Test, die Öko-Aktionen und das kürzlich dazugekommene Gruppen-Feature.
3. Activity of the students to take eco-actions and come up with new ways to contribute to more sustainable consumption and lifestyle.
3. Das Aktiv werden der SchülerInnen über Öko-Aktionen und Ideen für neue Möglichkeiten, zu nachhaltigerem Konsum und Lebensstil beizutragen.
There will be also a little competition between the student groups since the most active group will be awarded with a special prize after the pilot phase of the project is finished. We’ll look forward to share the first experiences of the project in a conference called “The Future of Sustainable Products and Services” in Essen 28.-29.9.2009. The winner of the pilot phase and outcomes of the project will be presented in December in Brussels.
Es wird auch einen kleinen Wettstreit zwischen den Schülergruppen geben, da die aktivste Gruppe mit einem besonderen Preis ausgezeichnet wird, wenn die Pilotphase des Projekts beendet ist. Wir freuen uns darauf, auf der Konferenz „The Future of Sustainable Products and Services“ in Essen vom 28. bis 29.09.2009 von ersten Projekterfahrungen zu berichten. Die Gewinner der Pilotphase und die Ergebnisse des Projekts werden im Dezember in Brüssel vorgestellt werden.
Before that we wish good luck for all the participants!
Bis dahin wünschen wir allen Teilnehmern und Teilnehmerinnen viel Erfolg!
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Future planning at team trip to Germany, Wuppertal
The onedidit.com ecological backpack test is based on calculations that use the material intensity data provided by i.e. the Wuppertal Institute in Germany. One did it team decided to travel to meet people in Wuppertal Institute and also UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP).
The journey started from Helsinki-Vantaa airport at 5.30 am. in anticipating atmosphere, a few of us have slight fear of flying. We flew to Dusseldorf and took the train to Wuppertal straight to a meeting. The day was successful, One did it team got introduced and got more comprehensive view of Wuppertal Institute’s area of operation. We also discussed about the launch of the German version of the onedidit.com site by the summer 2009 and some other acts of collaborating.
The next day after refreshing night activities and delicious Turkish dinner, the team started a whole day internal workshop about next steps concerning the service itself. As the first version was launched at the end of the year 2008, we have already some great feedback from users. The near future plans are very clear, there will be eco-tips called Do’s for user to reduce their ecological backpack calculated with the test. This feature has been accepted by the Beta-version users and it has been developed further to provide better user experience. Among this launch there will be anticipated friend invite feature, a must function to compare and challenge friends to take the test to calculate their own eco-backpack.
One of the major outcomes of the workshop was to continue the planning of the Facebook application immediately. There has been an application launched with the Beta-version, but it never reached the actual users. The role of the applications generally in Facebook has changed decisively from the first version of One did it application, some changes to the approach have been made and the application should be in test among volunteer One did it Facebook group members during this spring.
It is also evident that the German version of the site will be launched right after the English release that includes the eco-tips and friend features. Time frame to that is April-June 2009. The workshop summarized a few more broad-minded plans for the second half of the year 2009 but the final path of future development depends much on user feedback that we hopefully get loads of.
On the last day there was a meeting with CSCP, which supports usage of creative tools in sustainability communication. Since the concept of One did it is both informational and entertaining there could be possibilities to work together to promote the theme of sustainability. This could be done i.e. with the means of photography or writing or some other user provided content on onedidit.com service.
The trip was a great way to get out of the office, sit together in the same table, have good conversation about the state of the service, make future decisions and meet people from collaborating instances while having a great time. Hope the near release reflects the productive times we had!
The journey started from Helsinki-Vantaa airport at 5.30 am. in anticipating atmosphere, a few of us have slight fear of flying. We flew to Dusseldorf and took the train to Wuppertal straight to a meeting. The day was successful, One did it team got introduced and got more comprehensive view of Wuppertal Institute’s area of operation. We also discussed about the launch of the German version of the onedidit.com site by the summer 2009 and some other acts of collaborating.
The next day after refreshing night activities and delicious Turkish dinner, the team started a whole day internal workshop about next steps concerning the service itself. As the first version was launched at the end of the year 2008, we have already some great feedback from users. The near future plans are very clear, there will be eco-tips called Do’s for user to reduce their ecological backpack calculated with the test. This feature has been accepted by the Beta-version users and it has been developed further to provide better user experience. Among this launch there will be anticipated friend invite feature, a must function to compare and challenge friends to take the test to calculate their own eco-backpack.
One of the major outcomes of the workshop was to continue the planning of the Facebook application immediately. There has been an application launched with the Beta-version, but it never reached the actual users. The role of the applications generally in Facebook has changed decisively from the first version of One did it application, some changes to the approach have been made and the application should be in test among volunteer One did it Facebook group members during this spring.
It is also evident that the German version of the site will be launched right after the English release that includes the eco-tips and friend features. Time frame to that is April-June 2009. The workshop summarized a few more broad-minded plans for the second half of the year 2009 but the final path of future development depends much on user feedback that we hopefully get loads of.
On the last day there was a meeting with CSCP, which supports usage of creative tools in sustainability communication. Since the concept of One did it is both informational and entertaining there could be possibilities to work together to promote the theme of sustainability. This could be done i.e. with the means of photography or writing or some other user provided content on onedidit.com service.
The trip was a great way to get out of the office, sit together in the same table, have good conversation about the state of the service, make future decisions and meet people from collaborating instances while having a great time. Hope the near release reflects the productive times we had!
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